(n.) Reward or compensation for services rendered or to be rendered; especially, payment for professional services, of optional amount, or fixed by custom or laws; charge; pay; perquisite; as, the fees of lawyers and physicians; the fees of office; clerk's fees; sheriff's fees; marriage fees, etc.
(n.) A right to the use of a superior's land, as a stipend for services to be performed; also, the land so held; a fief.
(n.) An estate of inheritance supposed to be held either mediately or immediately from the sovereign, and absolutely vested in the owner.
(n.) An estate of inheritance belonging to the owner, and transmissible to his heirs, absolutely and simply, without condition attached to the tenure.
(v. t.) To reward for services performed, or to be performed; to recompense; to hire or keep in hire; hence, to bribe.
Example Sentences:
(1) In attacking the motion to freeze the licence fee during today's Parliamentary debate the culture secretary, Andy Burnham, criticised the Tory leader.
(2) I said: ‘Apologies for doing this publicly, but I did try to get a meeting with you, and I couldn’t even get a reply.’ And then I had a massive go at him – about everything really, from poverty to uni fees to NHS waiting times.” She giggles again.
(3) According to the OFT, banks receive up to £3.5bn a year in unauthorised overdraft fees - nearly £10m a day.
(4) In a newspaper interview last month, Shapps said the BBC needed to tackle what he said was a culture of secrecy, waste and unbalanced reporting if it hoped to retain the full £3.6bn raised by the licence fee after the current Royal Charter expires in 2016.
(5) The M&S Current Account, which has no monthly fee, is available from 15 May and is offering people the chance to bank and shop under one roof.
(6) With the flat-fee system, drug charges are not recorded when the drug is dispensed by the pharmacy; data for charging doses are obtained directly from the MAR forms generated by the nursing staff.
(7) Federal endorsement of the HMO concept has resulted in broad understanding of a number of concepts unknown in fee-for-service medicine.
(8) Quoting the BBC-commissioned survey of more than 2,000 adults, Lyons said they had been given six choices what to do with the licence fee surplus once digital switchover was complete.
(9) She said the rise in fees was not part of the effort to tackle the deficit, but was instead about Clegg "going along with Tory plans to shove the cost of higher education on to students and their families".
(10) Whereas 87% of U.S. physicians supported private fee-for-service health care, 85% of Canadian physicians supported government-funded national health insurance.
(11) Burns has a successful track record of opposing fees.
(12) This article compares patterns of health care utilization for hospitalizations and ambulatory care in a sample of 1855 urban, elderly, community residents who report obtaining their health care from one of four types of arrangements: a fee-for-service (FFS) physician, a hospital-based health maintenance organization, a network model HMO, or a preferred provider organization (PPO).
(13) In 2013, the town’s municipal court generated $221,164 (or $387 for each of its residents), with much of the fees coming from ticketing non-residents.
(14) Education is becoming unaffordable because of tuition fees and rent.
(15) Many cases before the commissioner remain unresolved, although those who wish to pursue matters to the tribunal as part of the transitional arrangements will not have to pay an additional fee to appeal to the tribunal.
(16) In early 2009, he took part in Celebrity Big Brother for a rumoured fee of £100,000.
(17) "We believe BAE's earnings could stagnate until the middle of this decade," said Goldman, which was also worried that performance fees on a joint fighter programme in America had been withheld by the Pentagon, and the company still had a yawning pension deficit.
(18) It was sparked by Ferguson's decision to sue Magnier over the lucrative stud fees now being earned by retired racehorse Rock of Gibraltar, which the Scot used to co-own.
(19) "Hints that the license fee payer will be hit are the closest the Tories come to explaining how they intend to pay for this."
(20) Meanwhile, we need to show that the recent changes to how we work with the BBC Executive are allowing us to be more focused, more rigorous and more transparent in the work that we do, so that licence fee payers can get a better BBC.
Fey
Definition:
(a.) Fated; doomed.
(n.) Faith.
(v. t.) To cleanse; to clean out.
Example Sentences:
(1) Ricky Gervais, Tina Fey and Tom Hiddleston will be popping up to get pally with the puppets.
(2) The US comedians Tina Fey and Amy Poehler will replace Ricky Gervais as next year's Golden Globe hosts – bringing perhaps a gentler touch to proceedings on the occasion of the awards' 70th anniversary.
(3) And the comedy Sisters, starring Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, also did reasonably well as R-rated adult-skewed counter-programming, opening with $13.4m in third.
(4) The snowman's quest is accompanied by a fey, irritating cover version of Frankie Goes to Hollywood's The Power of Love , in which Holly Johnson is replaced by a breathy chanteuse whimpering at the piano like a dog that needs taking for a walk.
(5) But Fey and Poehler would never condone this kind of unseemly contest between them, with people (ie, me) deciding which one they prefer, so I'll stop this nonsense now.
(6) An ode to better days: Facebook Twitter Pinterest Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Pinterest close 12.30am BST Amy Poehler confirms that she and Tina Fey will discuss whether they want to host the Golden Globes tonight.
(7) Amy Poehler and Tina Fey have been brilliant hosts for the Golden Globes – and that event itself has started in recent years itself to look sharper, smarter, more intimate: a cool revue-type show, compared to the deadly serious Oscars in a cavernous theatre.
(8) The two women have worked together pretty much throughout their careers, from Saturday Night Live (highlights include Poehler playing Hillary Clinton to Fey's Sarah Palin) to their forays into film, Baby Mama and, of course, Mean Girls .
(9) Tina Fey’s unflattering impersonations on Saturday Night Live were an instant hit.
(10) Sure, movies should be fun and a great deal of the fun – indeed, I would go so far as to say the primary fun – of American Hustle lies in the fact that it resembles, in Tina Fey and Amy Poehler's spot-on description, "an explosion in a wig factory".
(11) Here’s one of the latest videos of Fey and Poehler talking about what we can expect tonight.
(12) A slow start from Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, but then it picks up quickly.
(13) Kenneth introduced them both to Swinging London and he enjoyed the frisson of arriving at debauched parties with two 21-year-old men, one of them fey and elegant, and the other raffish and working-class."
(14) Actress Tina Fey arrives with Audi at the 65th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards held in Los Angeles.
(15) Five years ago, with Mean Girls, Tina Fey looked as though she might be shaping up to fill that role, and of course last year she scored a double-whammy with Sarah Palin and 30 Rock.
(16) The noncompetitive Sandwich-ELISA (polystyrene balls) with labelled antibody for staphylococcal enterotoxins (SE) A, B, C, and D according to Fey et al.
(17) Alignment of the CNBr-cleavage fragments was made easier by comparison with the cDNA sequence of mouse pro-C3 [Wetsel, Lundwall, Davidson, Gibson, Tack & Fey (1984) J. Biol.
(18) These are things that might make me as happy as news that the wonderful Tina Fey and Amy Poehler are to take over from the increasingly dreary Ricky Gervais as hosts of the Golden Globes – but not by much.
(19) The show broke its rating records in 2008 when vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin appeared alongside comedian and writer Tina Fey, who played her in a skit.
(20) Yes, Fey did crack a joke about Fallon petting Trump’s hair; it was the best line of the skit.